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- 80min CD-R Tests

In our normal burning tests the 80min CD contains slightly more than 80min data (80:01:47):

With 80min CDs, the CyberDrive CW058D holds the first place with 324secs. The drive doesn't write exactly at 16.00X but at 16.33X, which gives an advantage over the competition, producing lower recording times. AOpen CRW3248 comes second with 334secs, Philips PCRW3210 third, the Mitsumi CR-480ATE forth and LiteOn LTR-32123S/Plextor PX-W4012A last with 339/340 secs, respectively.

In the 20x write test, Plextor PX-W4012A finished the writing task faster than the other drives after 276 secs, and the LiteOn/Philips drives follow closely with 280/278 secs results.

Mitsumi CR-480ATE doesn't support 20x writing speed option

At the 24x writing speed, the CyberDrive CW058D holds the fist place with 239secs. The Plextor PX-W4012A is approximately 2 seconds slower. The LiteOn LTR-32123S comes third with 251secs, Mitsumi CR-480ATE forth with 255secs and AOpen CRW3248 last with 265secs.

Philips PCRW3210 doesn't support 20x writing speed option

In the 32X test, Plextor PX-W4012A gave the best performance with 213 seconds, followed by CyberDrive with 218 secs. Philips gave the third best performance with 222 secs.

The Plextor PX-W4012A wrote a 80 min CD at the maximum 40X speed after just 206 seconds. By the time we write this article, we have not any other 40x drive in our hands to compare this performance.